The Last Dinosaur

1977 "A lost world!! Ruled by the largest man eating monster of all!!"
5.3| 1h46m| en
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Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.

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Rankin/Bass Productions

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Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
jerekra The Last Dinosaur is a film that is meant to be fun and exciting. It succeeds at doing both.Maston is a big game hunter who hunts big game(go figure). Owning a company he is planning on going on an expedition with a group of people including a photographer named frankie, a Japanese scientist, a guy who works for his company named Chuck, and an African guy who has aided him on many safari's named Bun Ta. The point is to study what is believed to be Tyrannosaurus Rex, dinosaur that killed the last expedition to the area. They will be getting to this prehistoric area taking a drilling vehicle that travels underwater called the Polar Borer. After getting to the area they soon find the Tyrannosaurus, which Maston tries to shoot but his gun gets jammed. Chuck immediately senses that Maston wanted to hunt the dinosaur all along to add it to his collection of "Stuffed Animals". WHile they were away, Tyrannosaurus invades their camp and takes the Polar Borer away from their camp. Upon returning the group realizes that they may be in the area longer than they expected and Maston states that he will kill the Tyrannosaurus.THe story is great for a science fiction film. Drilling to a prehistoric area is something that seems could really happen. The scenery is beautiful and it looks like a place where dinosaurs could still reside.Also I liked the characters in this film. Maston is the typical big time hunter who wants to get anything that could be a trophy kill. Also great was Bun Ta, played by Luther Rackley formerly of the NBA, who really looks and acts like an African tracker. Jackie is the typical female who causes problems for the group and seems to not belong in the wilderness. Chuck is the former employee of Maston who has his view of his boss change when he is in the wild with him.The Tyrannosaurus in this film is one of the best in a film. It stands a little too up-right like Godzilla does and it drags its tail, so it is a guy in a suit. But the suit looks good, especially the head and the tail, and the Tyrannosaurus looks good and very scary. I have seen plenty of other films where dinosaur suits look way worse. Tyrannosaurus in this film sometimes emits a roar sounding like Godzilla's and other times roars like King Kong from "King Kong Escapes" and "King Kong vs Godzilla". SO a great Tyrannosaurus.There is plenty of action in The Last Dinosaur. Of particular note is a great fight between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. Also a great scene where Bun Ta tries to spear the Tyrannosaurus. There are other great parts that I wont give away. You have to see for yourself.I recommend this film to everyone. Watch it and you will not be disappointed.
Teng Vang This movie is kind of good. It seem that they used the Tyrannosaurus Rex like a blown up balloon, just like Godzilla, just maybe back in those 60-70's days, scientist haven't got enough info. on all sorts of dinosaurs. Back in those time scientist still making dinosaur, so I guess this movie was base on a Tyrannosaurus Rex movements back in the 60-70's. There even a part where a giant rock, fired by someone at the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it damage the Tyrannosaurus Rex and it was knock out for a little while. At the end, the Tyrannosaurus Rex went back to search for food. There is something wrong in the movie as well, like a rifle, how can one rifle kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex, when it could be 1,000-5,000 stronger than we are. If this film going to make a remake, I suggest make it more good and excited, because watching a old movie seems like to have a remake of it, if lucky.
bscott-1 I guess this is the first movie that made me aware of the term "cult flick". It is totally a bad movie, but I can't help it, I like this movie. Richard Boone has made better and so has Joan Van Arc, but if you are in to staying up late and watching movies that don't make you think to much this one is for you.
wishkah7 The Last Dinosaur was one ludricrous Made-for-TV movie! Richard Boone and Joan Van Ark play these scientists who go on a trip to an unknown island with a couple of other people and they get transported to the Stone Age and find themselves and a couple of cave people in battle with a dinosaur. How was that possible? The writers didn't even explain how they got into the Stone Age. Richard Boone goes through the movie trying to find some ways to kill the dinosaur, and Joan Van Ark just acts like a ditzy bimbo who acted like she didn't know what was going on. For example, she didn't know that it snows in the mountains even in the summer. This is another B-movie that MST3K could've had a field day with. The funniest line was, "First he's gonna chew us, then he's gonna swallow us, then he's gonna dissolve us, and I don't think we're ready for that"! The Last Dinosaur would be fun to watch for B-movie to have a good laugh. I also liked Richard Boone's laughably pathetic attempts to try to kill the dinosaur. The dinosaur itself looks so fake that you can tell it's probably a stunt man in a costume! In the end, the hero stays behind. This movie was like the cast of Dawson's Creek going on an island to kill a dinosaur. It's no wonder this movie didn't make it to theaters. It was even worse as a Made-for-TV movie! The Last Dinosaur is yet another cheesy movie with a nonexistent plot, inconvenience, and continuity problems. It kind of makes you wonder if the writers and producers were drunk when they were making up the dialogue and storyline.